Non-Diet Yogi
Non-Diet Yogi explores and dismantles the world of #BigWellness, where yoga, spirituality, fitness, diet culture, white supremacy and toxic female entrepreneurship collide in a dizzying spectacle of goji berries and designer mala beads.This podcast is for you if you - love yoga, but don’t always love yoga culture - wish to form a deeper connection with your body and with the natural world around you, minus the wellness wankery - are tired of the classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat phobia and other threads of white supremacy woven throughout #BigWellness. Hosted by Casey Conroy, non-diet dietitian, naturopath in training, and yoga teacher.
Non-Diet Yogi
Ep 11. Wildly Accessible Food & Medicine: Foraging Edible Weeds & Bush Foods with Pat Collins
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Casey Conroy, MNutrDiet, APD, YT
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Episode 11
Foraging for edible weeds is an accessible and inclusive healthcare skill. Pat Collins is a highly experienced herbalist, natural health practitioner and bush craftswoman with a passion for sharing her foraging know-how and instilling in people a deep appreciation of edible and medicinal weeds: nature's gifts.
In this episode:
- How being able to support her children’s health by making at home remedies motivated Pat into studying herbal medicine formally
- Why familiarity with the abundance of edible foods around us - and how to harvest and use them - is so valuable, especially at this time in history
- Why Pat published her book The Wondrous World of Weeds (it wasn’t because writing books pays well!)
- “Once upon a time we were all wise women” – the need to take back our power by reclaiming our knowledge of foraging
- The many uses of Chickweed (Stellaria media) and Paddy’s Lucerne (Sida rhombifolia)
- Weeds grow where the soil is right for them, and will tell you what is wrong with your soil
- Herbs in the time of COVID-19: Some of Pat’s favourite weed allies and ways to use them, to support immune and respiratory health, and to calm our nerves when “it all gets too much”
- Which native Australian bush foods are in season right now, how can to use it – think, lemon myrtle cheesecake and bunya nut curry (!)
- Pat’s views on MLM essential oil companies doTerra and Young Living, concerns about the safety of ingesting essential oils, and more affordable, practitioner grade alternatives to these brands
- The beauty of using whole herbs
- Menopause: How Pat views this powerful life stage, helpful plant allies, organ systems to take extra special care of, and how St John’s Wort helped Pat through her surprisingly tumultuous peri-menopausal years
- “If we as a culture respected our elders, we’d have far fewer problems with menopause”
- The call for wise, old women
Links:
- Pat's Website & Facebook
- High quality, affordable alternatives to MLM essential oil companies: New Directions, Sydney Essential Oil Company, Essential Therapeutics
- Funky Forest Apothecary
- Casey's blogs: